Hsu Tang-Wei, Crossing Spaces Installation 12, 2008
Acrylic on Canvas
145.5 × 112 cm (visible)
Condition: Very good
Artwork located in Taichung, Taiwan.
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Hsu Tang-Wei (Taiwanese, b.1980) works across painting, sculpture, and spatial installation. She graduated from the Department of Spatial Design at Shih Chien University and earned his MFA from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts. Blending the layered logic of architectural space with the imaginative freedom of painting, his works are rich in intricate details and open-ended meanings. Viewers are invited to wander through his constructed universes, where notions of space and distance shift and unfold.
After earning his MFA, Hsu began reinterpreting spatial concepts through personal imagination, extending from two-dimensional compositions to three-dimensional structures and immersive environments. His practice often features complex, mechanical-organic forms—structures that suggest both futuristic machines and microscopic organisms.
Hsu is adept at creating complex forms, using a fusion of painterly and architectural media to generate works that often carry a sci-fi aesthetic. His pieces frequently feature mechanical-like elements, resembling self-contained, fantastical micro-cities teeming with life. His use of line as a structural element might be seen as a personal visual vocabulary—a means to construct entire worlds.
Hsu Tang-Wei's works often present hybrid forms that appear to blur the boundary between the mechanical and the organic. A quintessential example is his Crossing Spaces Installation series, which evokes mysterious scenes of endlessly entangled pipelines within mechanical interiors, while simultaneously resembling microscopic landscapes of microbes or fungal organisms clinging to membrane-like surfaces. These floating, unnameable forms seem to resonate with visual memories drawn from East Asian anime culture—familiar yet elusive, suggestive yet indefinable.
(Photographed in June 2025)